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Practising Social Inclusion presents what we know about what works, and why, in promoting social inclusion and practising in a socially inclusive way. Contributing to the growing debates on social inclusion, this book moves beyond discussion of who it is that is socially excluded and the processes...
To Be Published June 25th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
This anthology presents the philosophical and practice perspectives of nurse scholars whose works center on promoting nursing research, practice, and education within frameworks of social justice and critical theories. Social justice nursing is defined by the editors as nursing practice that is...
To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
The global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as hypertension, diabetes and cancers, and of common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, has a disproportionate impact on the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The pattern...
To Be Published November 24th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
This book exploits the power of phenomenological methods to access and describe lived moral experiences of patients and their families, their fundamentally social nature, and the genetic, social and developmental origins of relational agency, suffering and decision making. Creating new fields of...
To Be Published November 28th 2013 by Routledge
Dissociative disorders are one of the psychiatric consequences of childhood psychological trauma. While oppression is an aspect of traumatic conditions, dissociation undermines one’s resistance to oppression throughout a person’s lifespan. Neither oppression nor dissociation are restricted to...
To Be Published January 12th 2014 by Routledge
The provision and use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been growing globally over the last 40 years, although there have always been regions where it predominated. As CAM develops alongside and, sometimes, integrates with conventional medicine, this Handbook provides...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
Design and branding have immense power to create, label and affix value to products and people. This innovative book argues that disability as a concept and category is created and reified by the way it is designed; the disabled are branded as in need of specialized, segregated services, products,...
To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Disclosure is a frequently used, but rarely interrogated concept in health and social welfare. Abuse, disability, sexuality and health status can be ‘disclosed’ to peers and professionals, and on some occasions, disclosure is a requirement and not a choice. This innovative collection examines the...
To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
Modern healthcare systems are extraordinarily complex and this creates significant challenges for care coordination. Nursing work is typically understood primarily in terms of direct clinical care yet estimates suggest that more than 70 per cent of nurses’ time is spent on other duties, where the...
To Be Published May 29th 2014 by Routledge
